POV Horror Movies

Sometimes, there are characters in horror movies that, even if they’re not the protagonist, just stand out. We see them and we immediately want to see more of them. They pique our curiosity. In some cases, it’s because of what the actor brings to it. They have a larger-than-life personality that just seems to dominate the screen. In other cases, it’s because they have a video camera in their hands...

By: Alyssa Ethelcrowe Sometimes an audience doesn’t get the memo that a work of fiction is just that. Take Orson Welles’ The War of the Worlds (1938), notorious for the panic it caused immediately after its broadcast. It’s obviously fiction now, but that wasn’t so clear to the people who heard the radio drama and flew into a panic. The program presented itself as a news broadcast, often with bulle...